An unidentified Zimmerman supporter sold gun range targets that invoke Trayvon Martin’s image.

The targets depicted a hooded figure carrying skittles and ice tea—the items Trayvon Martin was carrying the night he was shot by neighborhood watchmen George Zimmerman. The seller claims the targets sold out almost immediately.

“My main motivation was to make money off the controversy,” the unidentified seller said in an email exchange with the Orlando based station WKMG-TV.

The advertisements for the targets claim the seller “supports Zimmerman and believes he is innocent and that he shot a thug.”

He wouldn’t comment just how many of the targets he’s sold. “The response is overwhelming. I sold out in 2 days,” the seller told WKMG.

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Zimmerman’s attorney Mark O’Mara thinks the targets are in poor taste. “It’s this type of hatred — that’s what this is, it’s hate-mongering — that’s going to make it more difficult to try this case,” O’Mara said. He thought the targets represented “the highest level of disgust and the lowest level of civility.”

The targets have since been taken down due to increased media scrutiny. They are no longer available for purchase.

The Ed Show – Trayvon Martin gun range targets sold out online.

Zodiac’s Note: Whoever this is, is a special kind of asshole.  I hope he’s wearing a hoodie with a target on his chest and gets done in by a Zimmerman wannabe.  Stand your ground, you anonymous dick fungus.

Beastie Boys’ Adam Yauch dies at age 47.

The music world is mourning again. This time, it’s because Adam Yauch, known as Beastie Boys rapper MCA, has died.

GlobalGrind.com, music mogul Russell Simmon’s website, reports that Yauch died after a long battle with cancer. He was 47.

In 2009, Yauch announced he was being treated for a cancerous tumor in his salivary gland. He has undergone surgery and radiation therapy, and has not performed live since then. Yauch is survived by his wife, Dechen Wengdu, and their daughter, Losel.

Yauch was born an only child in Brooklyn, New York. While attending Edward R. Murrow High School, he taught himself to play the bass guitar, and formed the initial incarnation of the Beastie Boys with Michael Diamond (a.k.a. Mike D. ). They played their first show on Yauch’s 17th birthday. Yauch attended Bard College for two years before dropping out to focus on music.

The group originally featured friends John Berry and Kate Schellenbach. After Berry departed the band, he and was replaced by Adam Horovitz (Ad-Rock). The group began building their reputation with a song called Cookie Puss, based around a recorded prank phone call to Carvel. The song became a sensation in New York’s underground dance scene.

Two years later, at the age of 22, the Beastie Boys, now performing as a hip hop trio, released their first album Licensed to Ill on Simmons’ Def Jam Records. By 2010, the Beastie Boys had sold 40 million records worldwide. The group has won multiple Grammys and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame this year. Yauch, a practicing Buddhist, didn’t attend because of illness, but his bandmates read a letter from him.

“I’d like to dedicate this to my brothers Adam and Mike,” he wrote. “They walked the globe with me. It’s also for anyone who has ever been touched by our band. This induction is as much ours as it is yours.”

On Twitter, fans were remembering Yauch and the music.

Wrote Marlon Wayans: “Rest on peace Adam Yauch. Beastie Boys were always the “coolest whiteboys” when I was growing up. They erased color lines the opposite way”

Wrote director Kevin Smith: “RIP Adam Yauch. You made my teenage years more fun and your art made it easier for me to do what I do. For a Beastie, you sure were a beaut.”

And actress Milla Jovovich said, “We lost one of our greatest talents today. my prayers and thoughts go out to the family and friends of Adam Yauch. Beastie Boys for life.”

Trayvon case shows more black Americans tapping power of social media – USATODAY.com.

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It’s been a long road starting at the end of November 2010 when The Zodiac decided to record one song for a year.  Producing almost every track alone except for four and featuring only one guest (Shauno), it became a mission but one that was a lot more fun and easier than he had thought the challenge would be.  Each song, recorded mostly on Sundays became personal and even when in Sweden on vacation, a song was recorded in his friend’s bedroom on the laptop.  Dedication.

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